Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Now, what’s intriguing was during the 2007 great financial crisis - Mailchimp introduced monthly plans to make revenues predictable. Hello, all you product-loving folks!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map. Why do most startups fail?

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Most entrepreneurs assume that the marketing and audience building phase of their startup begins post product launch. Yet I’ve seen some startups successfully build their audience well before they reach this point. It launched its now famous Signal vs. Noise blog in 2001 to share their ideas about design, business, and the web.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

What are the stages of the marketing funnel? The Pirate Metrics Framework , invented by Dave McClure from 500 Startups in 2007, is a system for grouping metrics in the user funnel into five stages: acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue (AARRR for short).

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Closing the customer feedback loop will help your product stay relevant in the face of changing market trends and user expectations. Breakthrough innovation, on the other hand, is dramatic and changes the position of the business in the market.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Peldi: Seeing the BoS talks was part of my inspiration back in 2007. It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. It was like TED, but for us. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Peldi: Seeing the BoS talks was part of my inspiration back in 2007. It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. It was like TED, but for us. Upcoming Events.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

And that was back in 2007 and has been going ever since. I’m sure it could just be my experience and my experience is always in the smaller startups and it could be that in very big sort of enterprise companies and like maybe in government roles, medical roles, I’m sure that’s still a thing. But, I have a question.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 6, 2009

at the end of 2007. Since I have a blog this time around, I thought I would share my lessons learned from imeem with all of you. There's likely a startup opportunity to provide better A/B testing tools that let you look at the full effect of variations over time). Very few music startups have focused on monetization.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He read everything he could on VCs and, as an 18-year-old, started The Twenty Minute VC , a podcast that has, for the past eight years, picked the brain of over 200 of the world’s leading venture capitalists and startup founders and has been downloaded over 100 million times. Now, we’re going the other way around. Content that stands out.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Having founded Doist in 2007, Amir Salihefendic is the CEO and founder of the company behind Todoist and Twist. So, we are creators of two tools; One is a task manager app that I started actually in 2007. And I kind of find like a product market fit todoist. I hope we can maybe do a blog post at some point about this.

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Userpilot

APRIL 12, 2022

However, if you’re providing a novel solution in a market with less competition, AARRR is the better option. Dave McClure from 500 Startups created the pirate metrics funnel in 2007. If you’re a startup, it would be more sensible for you to begin with the AARRR framework. What is AARRR? Let’s find out.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. When you have a market that’s so big, where do you start?

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. Big companies versus small ones. Personal life OKRs. If you like the podcast, you can subscribe here.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. Big companies versus small ones. Personal life OKRs. If you like the podcast, you can subscribe here.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

This was originally published on Intercom’s blog here. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. Adam: A lot of our listeners are going to know you best through your writing; isn’t that how Marc originally found you back in 2007? Hope you enjoy! -A].

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. So you’ve come in and you’ve been running annual conferences since 2007, and then bi annual conferences since 2014, when you launched the EU as well as the US conference.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. You can follow and message Li on Twitter if you have thoughts about the piece.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. but may not directly sound like podcasting.

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